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Isabel Miller | @isabelmillermedia Sophia Julio, a senior majoring in anthropology, has her necklace adjusted on Friday during the annual Love at the Glove event inside the Glove Factory in Carbondale.

Love at the Glove art show features unorthodox displays of love, lust Kallie Cox | @KalllieC45439038

Crowds of people cycled through the Surplus Gallery at the Glove Factory on Saturday for the annual Love at the Glove art show, a one-night event featuring 2-D and 3-D artistic interpretations of love and lust.

This year marks the 19th annual Love at the Glove show, which features art of all mediums including ceramics, sculpture, paintings, photography, woodwork, embroidery and even human models.

Margaret Lebeau, a senior studying art and one of the participating artists, displayed a piece called “Lover’s Legs.” The piece was a 3-D sculpture crafted out of steel to look like two legs connected at the knees with one foot raised into the air.

Lebeau said the piece means a lot to her because it was one of the first pieces she was allowed to dictate.

“I think this show is really important for the community as well as anybody who is looking to branch out with their emotions and kind of learn a little more about themselves,” Lebeau said. “It is a very open opportunity for everybody.”

A bit past Lebeau’s sculpture was a large 3-D penis made out of what appeared to be carved wood, on a leash that is jerking to the right with a metal-studded leather collar and a dog tag that says “envy” in green ink. There was no artist listed for the piece but it attracted dozens of admirers.

Isabel Miller | @isabelmillermedia Community member walk around observing art on Friday during the annual Love at the Glove event inside the Glove Factory in Carbondale.

To the right of the piece was another popular 3-D installationa large chocolate dildo poking out of a clear container with baby Donald Trump and red heart balloons floating overhead.

Attached to it was a card reading, “To President Trump, from Russia with love,” with a Russian flag next to the message. The artist was anonymous.

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SIU is partnering with the California-based "Summer Math and Science Honors Academy program," a free STEM-intensive college preparatory program for underrepresented high school students to bring the program to southern Illinois launching Summer 2019.

“These are students that may not come from the family background where it is expected they are going to go to college,” said Meera Komarraju, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs. "These are students who have to find their way and this program provides that opportunity to expose the students to what the STEM area is."

Komarraju said the program is not only focused on science technology, engineering or math, but also helps students with design thinking, creative problem solving, leadership and college prep. She said the best part of the program that it provides mentoring and support for the students.

“The students have the opportunity to get in a cohort with other students from a similar background who have all of the same interests,” Komarraju said. “It gives them that group; they have this sense of belonging.”

The program provides a free five-week residential program at Southern over the summer months and will bring the students on campus once a month for the rest of the year, Komarraju said.

The program is looking for high school students who would stay in the program for three consecutive years. It was found that 100 percent of students who participated in the SMASH program would graduate from high school, Komarraju said. 80 percent of the students were found to graduate with a bachelor's degree.

The program is hoping to attract 70 high school students from the state – 35 from the southern Illinois area and 35 from the south side of Chicago.

Komarraju said that when Illinois was identified for the program, the Illinois Institute of Technology was the only university considered but Linda Baker, a staff member at the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, mentioned SIU to organizers and helped clinch the deal.

“Just through some networking, she happened to know about this program and she said Illinois is not just Chicago. There’s more to Illinois and really you should serve the children in the rural part of [the state,]" Komarraju said.

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Obituary: Tracey “Lee” Bryant

Tracy “Lee” Bryant III, a longtime teaching assistant at the School of Medicine, died Friday at the age of 66.

Bryant was born Aug. 29, 1952, at Camp Cooke, California, now Vandenberg Air Force Base.

Bryant attended Southern Illinois University and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in physiology.

He served in the U.S. Army and was a member of the Illinois National Guard for 26 years.

He worked for the SIU School of Medicine for 36 years as a teaching assistant.

His family said he loved being outdoors, camping, fishing and hunting. He was a member of Ducks Unlimited, the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Elks.

Bryant is survived by three sons, Alexander Bryant, Andrew Ehrhardt and Vincent Ehrhardt; a sister, Gwen Lazowski; and one grandson, Ryker Ehrhardt.

A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Walker’s Funeral Home in Carbondale.

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Ann Dawkins, a graduate student studying art and a participating artist, showed a small painting titled “Rotten Grapefruit.” Dawkins said she used rotting fruit imagery in her painting to symbolize the fragility of the human body.

“Our human bodies are sort of uncontrollable and transient – something that is like seperate from ourselves,” Dawkins said.

“The work has kind of taken on the form of the human body and some of the fruit comes out really vaginal.”

Demetrio Antunez, a senior art major, submitted a woodcut print featuring two hands grasping each other, one from above and one from below.

Antunez said the piece is meant to signify the love of Christ.

“The hand coming down has light shining down as well, and then the hand grasping it from below has darkness coming up,” Antunez said. “So it’s

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almost like a duality but also like Christ coming down and supporting the figure in the piece.”

Artist Red O’Flannery, a junior majoring in ceramics, created the display “Tea Bodies.” The display is ceramic and consists of three teapots that represent different female body types.

“I wanted to do a series of body positive pieces,” O’Flannery said. “One is more of a stereotypical, more athletic and a big bosom, that sort of thing, and then I have a heavier-set woman and I have also a pregnant body.”

O’Flannery said she hopes to expand the series to include more body types as well as male and trans narratives.

Sparkles La Fae, an artist from Heads or Tails Outfitters, a local company that creates custom accessories, created several headpieces worn by models at the event.

The pieces were made in a variety of materials and styles;

some were floral, some leather, some with chains, wire work or glass work, and even ones with horns.

La Fae refers to the horns as dragon crowns and said she pulls inspiration from things around her.

“I feel like it empowers people to have a set of horns on,” La Fae said. “Like they can face anything.”

La Fae said she hopes people get a little bit of joy from her pieces.

The artist with the most pieces in the show was photographer James Ferraro, who had several photographs of nude women in various positions of bondage.

From the moment the show opened, the gallery was filled with people and not a single art piece went unnoticed.

Donations made at the event went to the Carbondale Women’s Center.

Komarraju said.

“They gave us a chance,” Komarraju said. “At all of the other sights, there was only one university – this is the first time they are trying two universities.”

Komarraju said that the student are not the only ones to benefit from the program; so does the society which they come from because the students become role models in

their communities.

“It’s not just one student absorbing the knowledge and keeping it to themselves, they go home and talk about it to their friends and family,” Komarraju said. “If they succeed, imagine the benefit to everybody else around them.”

Staff reporter Kallie Cox can be reached at kcox@dailyegyptian.com.

Staff reporter Emily Cooper can be reached at ecooper@dailyegyptian.com.

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By detailing the events of her rape, one woman fights to end sexual violence on college campuses David Wharton | Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES – The buzz of the lights. That is all you can hear in this big gymnasium, the buzz of the lights overhead and the sound of Brenda Tracy's voice, which remains steady even as she begins to cry.

Her gaze shifts to the floor, if only for a moment. Standing alone on an empty basketball court, she straightens up and looks at the hundreds of people watching from the stands.

Dressed in a black T-shirt and jeans, Tracy resumes telling them about the night so long ago when she stopped by a friend's apartment.

She recalls the football players who were there, how they persuaded her to have a drink, how she passed out a short time later.

"The first time I regained consciousness, I became immediately aware I was laying on my back on the floor," she says. "I was naked and I couldn't move my arms or legs."

The man on her left tried to force her to have oral sex. So did the man on her right.

"So I turned from them and looked up and the third man was raping me," she says. "And I remember feeling like I was trying to say or yell 'Stop.'"

Twenty years later, this is what the 45-year-old mother of two does, traveling the country to stand before strangers and share her most awful memory.

She has appeared before 110,000 fans at Michigan's football stadium

and 15 or so players on a basketball team. This crusade, which started years before the #MeToo movement, takes her any place where people will listen.

On this night, at Sacramento State, the school has made attendance mandatory for all of its athletes.

A half-hour earlier, the 500 or so young men and women walked in chatting, laughing, searching for friends to sit beside; now they have fallen quiet, leaning forward, some of them lowering their heads.

Tracy has no memorized speech, no notes or litany of statistics about sexual violence in America. She hits her audience with something different: sheer honesty, a graphic and unflinching description of that night.

"The next time I came into consciousness, one of the men was cradling me in his arm and he was pouring a bottle of hard alcohol down my throat and I was choking and gagging on it," she says. "And I passed out again."

In theory, this was supposed to get easier for her _ the telling _ but it hasn't. Wiping away tears, she says: "I've shared my story at least 80 times, and I cannot go back into that apartment and tell you what they did to me without feeling this intense amount of shame and embarrassment and pain."

Something about Tracy suggests a quiet strength. Something about the angle of her shoulders, the straight, dark bangs that frame an earnest smile.

Her presentation begins with a warning – "The things I'm going to

talk about are uncomfortable" – and a vow that the tale will be "kind of rough and hard but it gets better.

And there is hope at the end."

Hope in the form of new laws she has spearheaded to bolster victims' rights in her home state of Oregon.

Hope in the form of national awards she has received and sports organizations, such as the Big Sky Conference, that have adopted her policies to address sexual violence on campus.

But getting to the good part is tough. First you have to make it through the night of June 24, 1998.

To that point, her life had not been easy. Tracy tells the audience that, while growing up, she was abused on separate occasions by a relative and a baby sitter's boyfriend.

Pregnant in high school, she was disowned by some in her family because the father was black.

That relationship produced two boys but was marked by abuse and ended in divorce. Tracy was 24, dating an Oregon State football player, when she tagged along with a girlfriend to an apartment that belonged to another player on the team.

The girlfriend soon retreated to a bedroom with one of the men, leaving Tracy alone with two Oregon State athletes, a junior college player and a high school recruit.

If there is any small mercy in what happened next, it is that Tracy estimates she was conscious for only a small fraction of an ordeal that lasted six hours. Her fragmented memories include pleading with the

men at some point, telling them she felt nauseated.

"So one of them picked me up kind of like a rag doll and carried me to the bathroom," she says. "He laid me over the counter and he shoved my head into the bathroom sink and, as I was vomiting on myself in the sink, he was raping me from behind."

The next morning, she woke on the floor, still naked, with food crumbs and bits of potato chips pressed into her skin. Gum was stuck in her hair.

"I mostly just remember, in that moment, feeling like a piece of trash. I was a piece of trash they had forgotten on the living room floor," she says. "I didn't even feel like a human."

Her girlfriend urged her to forget about what had happened, but, after speaking briefly with police, Tracy and her mother went to the hospital for a rape exam. The next day, the four men were arrested.

Any sense of justice was shortlived.

In the days that followed, the community seemed to turn against the unnamed accuser, siding with the popular Oregon State team, openly wondering why this woman _ some people guessed who she was _ went to the apartment that night, why she drank alcohol.

"This happened 20 years ago, but it's exactly the same thing that still happens today," she says. "Any time a person comes forward, especially against an athlete or certain men in positions of power, it's 'Who is she?

What's in it for her?'"

In interviews contained in a Corvallis Police Department report from 1998, the suspects said Tracy had consumed only one gin-andorange juice but had seemed drunk.

All four recall her saying "No" or asking to be left alone at some point.

They all tended to minimize their participation in various sex acts that occurred, more often implicating one another.

One suspect described the incident as "risky" and another, when asked if Tracy's version was true, replied: "Kind of."

Still, she recalls that prosecutors warned her the case might drag on for years and be difficult to prove. When she ultimately decided not to cooperate, the charges were dropped.

"The witness has not recanted or changed the statements she originally gave to the police," Pam Hediger, a Benton County prosecutor, told The Associated Press then. "Part of the decision and process is that she doesn't want any more of the public exposure than she's already had."

Oregon State conducted a separate investigation, but when the next season came around, the two football players inside the apartment received suspensions of only one game each.

Coach Mike Riley told the media that his players were good young men who made "a bad choice."

associates who flipped on the crime lord under cooperation agreements with the government.

The sometimes circuslike trial drifted into telenovela territory when Guzman and his wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro, wore matching burgundy velvet smoking jackets as a former mistress resumed testimony about the 2014 night she and a naked Guzman fled authorities through a secret tunnel under a pop-up bathtub.

Once the most wanted man in the world, Guzman, 61, declined to testify in his own defense.

In his closing argument, defense lawyer Jeffrey Lichtman claimed Guzman was never a true powerbroker in the Sinaloa Cartel — rather he was set up to become the ultimate fall guy for his fugitive former partner Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada.

In the government’s closing argument, Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrea Goldbarg urged jurors to use their common sense and not let Guzman escape justice.

She reminded them of the drug lord’s two prior escapes from highsecurity Mexican prisons — hidden in a laundry cart in 2001 and through a nearly mile-long tunnel dug from a

nearby property to the bottom of his prison cell shower in 2015.

She recalled how the cartel boss moved massive amounts of drugs up to the U.S. border and beyond with a dizzying array of airplanes, speedboats, semi-submersible submarines, tanker trains partially filled with vegetable oil, smuggling tunnels and jalapeno pepper cans stuffed with cocaine.

Goldbarg claimed Guzman’s enterprise earned more than a billion dollars in the early 1990s alone, trafficking more than 75 tons of cocaine into the U.S. using the pepper can ruse.

While the notorious narco’s empire evolved over the years as turf wars broke out and he lived life on the lam as a jailbreak fugitive, the drugs kept flowing, Goldbarg said.

She highlighted the countless bricks of cocaine seized up through 2014, his arsenal of military-grade weapons, his stable of sicarios, or hit men, and testimony Guzman paid millions in bribes to a rotating cast of corrupt officials.

The prosecutor opened her final argument with witness testimony claiming Guzman personally tortured and killed at least three

people, ordering his men to burn two of the bodies in a bonfire and bury the third victim while still alive.

She said the jury didn’t have to conclude Guzman was the supreme leader of the Sinaloa Cartel — rather a top boss whose actions proved his status.

“Who traveled in an armored car with security guards? Who has not one but two tunnels (leading) to the United States? Who has a mile-long tunnel built under the shower in his prison cell? Who has a zoo with little trains? Who flies around in jets and helicopters? Who has diamondencrusted pistols? Who lives in the mountaintops and has his food flown to him?” Goldbarg fired off in rapid succession during her closing argument Jan. 30.

“The answer is common sense: A boss of the Sinaloa Cartel does this,” she said.

When the jury began deliberating Monday, part of the evidence at their disposal was the 2015 video interview Guzman recorded for actor Sean Penn and Mexican-American actress Kate Del Castillo as part of a profile published by Rolling Stone magazine.

In snippets played in court, jurors

saw Guzman sitting in his signature trucker hat, waxing poetic about his roots as a penniless pot farmer growing up in Badiraguato, a poor village in the mountains of Sinaloa.

“There are no job opportunities.

The only way to have money to buy food, to survive, is to grow poppy, marijuana, and at that age, I began to grow it, to cultivate it and to sell it,” he said in Spanish.

In another clip, Guzman claimed his trafficking business barely missed a beat while he was locked up in 2014 and planning his secret subterranean tunnel.

“From what I can tell, and what I know, everything is the same.

Nothing has decreased,” he said.

U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan previously ruled that jurors would not see the text of the Rolling Stone article written by Penn.

According to Penn, Guzman boasted during their meeting that he was the world’s most successful drug baron.

“I supply more heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana than anybody else in the world. I have a fleet of submarines, airplanes, trucks and boats,” he said, according to Penn.

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‘El Chapo’ found guilty after epic drug trafficking trial Molly Crane-Newman and Nancy Dillon | New York Daily News

NEW YORK — They got Shorty.

A jury of eight women and four men reached a unanimous verdict in Brooklyn Federal Court Tuesday, convicting Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera in the closely watched case.

The anonymous jury spent six days debating charges Guzman trafficked more than 150 tons of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana into the U.S. while generating “billions of dollars in profit” and conspiring to commit murder.

Guzman, whose narco nickname means “Shorty,” was up against a landslide of evidence painstakingly pieced together from sprawling investigations and indictments in New York, Texas, Florida, Illinois and California.

The jurors — their names a tightly guarded secret due to concerns about their safety — heard from 57 witnesses during 36 days of testimony that started back on Nov. 13.

Fourteen of the witnesses were former Guzman underlings and

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Jodee Harmon | @JLHarmonPhotography The largest piece in the exhibit by Charles Swedlund covers the entirety of a wall on Feb. 5, 2019 inside the SIU’s University Museum. The individual photos were grouped together to make one large piece.

Art and Fact: Charles Swedlund shares 35 years of cave photography Emily Cooper | @ecooper212

After spending over 35 years absorbed in cave photography, Charles Swedlund, professor emeritus, is sharing hundreds of his photographs in an exhibit in the SIU Museum.

“The university museum has had a long relationship with the Swedlunds and has worked with Charles in the past for other exhibits. When the opportunity arose for him to have a show in the university museum we reached out to him,” Wes Stoerger, SIU museum curator of exhibits, said.

The gallery contains over two hundred photos from different caves throughout the country, Stoerger said.

It’s hard to have an exact count of how many photographs are used because most of the pieces have multiple tiles within the picture.

“It’s easily in the two hundreds and could be more than that. It’s hard to give an exact number depending on how you look at it,” Stoerger said.

The largest piece in the show is a 26-foot long collage, made up of seven-inch tiles and each of those tiles represents a meter of the ceiling, Stoerger said.

“People used soot from candles to write their names,” Swedlund said.

“Some people look at it as graffiti or vandalism, but these names have been very helpful to add another layer of history,” Swedlund said.

To do the mozaic, it would

take using tracks and putting the camera in it and photograph, move it, photograph; move it, photograph; then do another row and continue to do that, Swedlund said.

Swedlund completed a graduate program in non-structured art – this fits right in with that, he said.

“There’s years of work in this,” Swedlund said.

Swedlund began photographing caves in 1982 at Mammoth Cave National Park.

“I started going there with my family as tourist and while on the tour I would try to take photographs,” Swedlund said.

He said he showed some of the photographs in class one day and a student came up after class and asked if he had ever been in a wild cave.

“We went in one up by Kinkade lake, Ava Cave, and that was the first time I was ever in a cave that was non-developed and I liked it,” Swedlund said.

“After crawling through mud, you smell life. You start to smell vegetation, plants and then you start to see a glimmer of light. In that cave you could crawl out in the middle of a forest.”

The display process took about two-and-a-half weeks to get everything done, Stoerger said.

“It happens in stages,” Stoerger said. “The first thing we did was hung the smaller pictures on the walls to get that kind of roughed in, then we moved onto the bigger pieces which each took more time ending on the specifics with

each one of them.”

Before the museum was shut down, in mid 2017, they got in contact with Swedlund about having a show, Stoerger said.

“I wish I could do it all over,” Swedlund said. “There are things I wish I could have added but what is there is what I wanted it to be.”

The gallery covers wild caves from Pipistrelle Cave and Mystery Cave.

“Both of these caves are within 10 miles of each other,” Swedlund said. “I wanted to show two caves from the same area could be so erratically different visually.”

Swedlund’s work will be on display at the university museum until late July.

“It’s over 50 caves, you know how do you make sense of that?” Swedlund said. “I didn’t want it to look spotty, I wanted there to be enough photographs for a person could feel what the place is like and so the gallery here is just amazing for what I needed to have.”

The University Museum is located at 1000 Faner Dr., Faner Hall, Room #12. Gallery admission is free and open to the public Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday 1 to 4 p.m. Public metered parking is available across from the Student Center and beside Woody Hall.

Staff reporter Emily Cooper can be reached at ecooper@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @ecooper212.

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SIU students translate untold stories from German women resisting the Nazi Regime “We’re translating a catalogue from a museum that Starting out as a school project has an exhibit specifically only meant to receive class about women who resisted credit towards their degree, during the third reich and three students began transcribing not just popularly known untold stories from women women,” Blake said. “These fighting against the Nazi Regime. are lesser known women that “We have found multiple fought either violently or nonstories of women – in every violently during the time of aspect of the war – were doing the Nazis.” everything that they could.

It’s like uncovering a puzzle [It is] simply the fact that – uncovering old stories and they were underestimated and you learn more as you go overlooked,” said Benjamin along, Blake said.

Reese, a junior from Machesney “It’s important because Park in the German education women in history have been program. “I think that was their really underrepresented,” Blake greatest advantage.” said. “There are plenty of stories The analysis is a collection of of men that have resisted, but we women all fighting for the same want to be able to share stories thing, Leia Ruebling, a senior in of women resisting during the the German studies program, said. third reich and how their stories “We have a lot of eyes are told so other people to look looking at us right now, it’s to them as role models.” awesome, but the pressure is Reese said he doesn’t think on for sure to get everything people understand what translated correctly,” Reubling women truly did and were said. “Not only that, but not lose largely overlooked during that any validity in the content that time period. is given to us.”

“Men, at the time, were Spencer Blake, a senior in the targeted directly by the Nazis German education program, said regardless if you were Jewish he is currently student teaching, or if you were an Aryan,” Reese but is helping Reubling and said. “According to the Nazis Reese along the way.

Regime they had two objectives “There are roughly 18 women – you were either being recruited presented in this catalogue, and into the Nazi Regime or you so far we have only translated were being killed because you’re about six or seven,” Blake said. “I seen as a threat.” would anticipate by the end of this Nazis didn’t see women semester, we will be finished.” as a threat because they Reubling said their goal is underestimated women, Reese going to eventually become said. While they did help their published translators after the families by getting groceries group has checked everything or mail, they were also for accuracy with the museum in organizing for underground Frankfurt, Germany. groups against the Nazis.

The students were offered this “These women were passing project by Carola Daffner, an out flyers or creating these associate professor of German at underground groups that were the university, who found it from secretly going against the Nazis, the German Resistance Research whether it was propaganda or Council in Frankfurt, Germany actually on the battle fronts,” and asked if they would be Reese said. willing to take it on.

Reubling started out translating Emily Cooper | @ecooper212

items in the Special Collections office, dating back from World War I. Those were hand-written letters and postcards from the soldiers while they were physically in battle.

“It was very difficult for me to continue on that journey because of the amount of time I was putting in and the amount of work I was not getting, unfortunately, because they were all written in a different alphabet,” Reubling said.

Reubling said that it is a beautiful thing to have the opportunity to share their knowledge with people who may not realize how much women did within fighting against Hitler, she said.

“Especially since how constantly in history, the U.S. is taught ‘we did this, and we did that,’” Reubling said.

“Those things are important, but overtaught. We never hear about these women’s stories, obviously because they have never been translated into English.”

The fact that this is the first time it’s being translated into English shocked Reese because the language is so common now, he said.

“It’s almost hard to find something that has yet to be translated, just because of the overwhelming amount of technology that has come into this world,” Reese said.

Reubling said that it is empowering to know that women were breaking boundaries and moving forward when situations were so uncertain.

“Women had a very, very strong role in Germany before, during, and after the war, and they will always have that,” Reubling said.

Staff reporter Emily Cooper can be reached at ecooper@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @ecooper212.

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Best videogames to play in the dorms

Jeremy Brown | @JeremyBrown_DE

Sometimes you long for a sense of community the dorms have but you don’t really want to do anything that requires real social interaction. Lucky for you, there’re plenty of video games for you to avoid conversation and/or lose some friends in the process.

The following games aren’t in any specific ranking, but they are ordered from most expensive, $60, to least – as low as $10.

Super Smash Bros.

Ultimate: Super Smash Bros. is a series where anyone can at least tell when they’re dead – a massive explosion happens on the side of the screen they got kicked/ punched/maimed/thrown out to.

The easiest recommendation is Super Smash Bros.

Ultimate, exclusively for Nintendo Switch, since it has the most characters for veterans and newcomers to choose from. Plus, the Switch already has at least two controllers built-in. Though we recommend using the Switch Pro Controller or a cheap adapter for Gamecube controllers too.

If you want to plan something bigger, the Tourney mode can set up a tournament that pits every person on your floor against each other, but be prepared to make sure no one gets so mad they smash a controller.

If people are struggling but want to keep playing and want to win for once, there’s always team battles or battles against the computer. If one person’s too good, the rest can gang up on them or just ignore them at Lentz later.

Resident Evil 2 (2019): Any horror game is a great spectator time – but the older it is, the more

There’re plenty of video games for you to avoid conversation and/or lose some friends in the process. likely the spectators have seen it and won’t be as scared. The latest and greatest is currently Capcom’s complete reimagining of Resident Evil 2 on PS4, Xbox One and PC. It follows two campaigns of Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield trying to survive a horrible night in the Raccoon City Police Station.

Zombies still live after shots to the head, they hide, sneak, play dead and even bash through windows to grab you.

The game starts introducing more and more horrifying creatures and boss fights, so if you haven’t seen them you’re in for some disturbing sights and sounds, and are probably going to be yelling at the person with the controller to run faster.

If you’re the one playing, good luck, and don’t freak out when the RA is asking about the screaming.

Mario Kart 8/Mario Kart 8 Deluxe: Mario Kart 8 for WiiU or Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on the Switch are easily the most newcomer-friendly racing games currently out.

While the Switch version is a rerelease, it has twice the maps and real battle maps for balloon battle and other modes. For fans, it’s great. For newbies, you’ll still be wondering how to stop a red shell every time you get into 4th.

It’s easy to play just a couple maps before class or dinner and just as quick to make you hate your suitemate for knocking you off the map twice while you're only in 10th. Seriously, Alex, it must be intentional.

Duck Game: Duck Game, which is out on PS4, Xbox One and PC with a Switch release coming this year, is hilarious, fast, and leads to just as many tense, close calls as Smash. Play as a bunch of ducks with customizable hats and kill each other in bizarre ways.

Also, there’s a quack button.

How have you not already bought this game?

Call of Duty: As much as people give them crap, any Call of Duty game on your PS3, Xbox 360, PS4 or Xbox One will lead to four player deathmatches or four-player co-op trying to survive zombie onslaughts. This is something that people can pick up and play probably quicker than anything else- just point and shoot. It’s not complicated, but if you’re just looking to play with some friends, do you really need much else?

Arts & Entertainment editor Jeremy Brown can be reached at jbrown@dailyegyptian.com.

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You’re Dumb and Wrong: Horoscopes are not real, do not act like they are

Jeremy Brown | @JeremyBrown_DE

Listen, either there’s an allpowerful universal ruling element of the cosmos that does directly influence who you are predestined to be as a character in reality — or it’s all horse crud. Based on how spiteful and arrogant I am as an Aquarius, I’m leaning on the latter.

I cannot fathom why anyone would believe/want to believe their personality is tethered to a predestination outside of their control. Neither you nor I can be who we choose to be according to Astrology. Who would want to be defined by something that is out of their control?

Instead, the alignment with the sun and the constellations tell me I’m an Aquarius. Meaning on the positive side: I’m loyal. True. I still use my Gameboy Micro.

I’m a humanitarian. False.

Unless investing in Flaming Hot Nacho Doritos counts as saving the world, then no.

I’ve got a great sense of humor.

False. Look at the comment section. According to readers, this

is factually incorrect.

On the negative side, obnoxious and arrogant aren’t listed. Maybe the stars took the day off for me?

Negatives: Unpredictable, as in monotony bores me. False. I eat Grapenuts.

I’m very okay with monotony.

Stubborn, as in you can’t change my mind. True. Toto still sucks.

Aloof, not friendly or forthcoming. False. I’m going to over-explain how much of a jackass I am every week. Stay tuned!

But enough of my intellectual masturbation and ego-boosting, because the even faker garbage of horoscopes is the complete shots in the dark as to what your day will be like tomorrow.

A great example comes from the Nov. 28, 2018 issue of the Daily Egyptian. We had a design chief who I’ll call something generic, like “Hannah Smith” and a Gemini reporter in the office.

Smith fully believes in Astrology – every stressed out reporter’s days or disagreements could be explained with a reading from the stars.

Gemini asked Smith what her horoscope had planned for that day. Smith pulled up our Study Break section and read the Gemini horoscope as follows: “Today is an 8 – Relax and spend time with a significant other. Discover and express passion, beauty and romance.

Reaffirm commitments and share possibilities. Love animates you... [sic]” In the middle of Smith’s peppy telling of this future, Gemini had walked away with a frown. The crowd around Smith slowly turned away with embarrassed looks.

“What? Did I say something wrong?” Smith said.

As it turns out, Gemini had

gotten dumped by their longterm boyfriend through a Google Doc the previous day. I don’t know if the stars were playing a cruel joke on Gemini, but even writing a break-up note in scary ransom-note letters would be an improvement.

What’s worse? You can go to separate websites for horoscopes – any popular ones will do. The stars, depending on who’s reading them, have something completely different to say from site to site.

And if it’s all up to interpretation, then you’re not listening to the stars, you’re listening to someone else giving you a pep talk.

You yourself make tomorrow good, not a blurb that acts as if

you’re climbing the corporate ladder at Kohls. There’s never been something so insincere that people will blindly believe as hor– oh boy, what’s my fortune cookie say?

Does my old high school hoodie spark joy? Nope.

Do the free t-shirts from volunteering events spark joy?

That stiff cotton monstrosity does not spark joy.

How about old DIY unofficial costumes that are never going to see the light of day again?

Fun to reminisce on drunken memories, but doesn't spark joy.

Shorts that are from freshman year, therefore pre-freshman 15? Absaluki not.

Once you have your piles of keep, donate, and toss, maybe pour some out for the pieces you're losing but know that your left with things you're actually going to use. Just make sure you actually follow through with donating and throwing away those items.

2. Once sorted, properly organize I'm sure we've all scrolled past the infamous perfectly folded and sorted shirt drawer on Pinterest before, thinking it would take too much time and is only useful for aesthetic purposes.

Let me tell you, folding T Shirts like that isn't just for pictures, it actually works. Not only is it satisfying to look at,

being able to visually see all the shirts you own helps in rotating through wearing them and not only choosing what's on top.

I have probably a few too many concert tees I've forgotten about. Organizing the shirts in sections — concerts, regular, and gym shirts — has opened up space in the drawer and allowed me to wear the often forgotten about shirts more.

Pulling out and organizing your belongings also helps with the out of sight, out of mind tendency we have. Now everything is in its proper place or donated/thrown out, and the feeling of decluttering is amazing.

3. Digital clutter You have gone through your physical spaces and KonMaried them, but it is also essential to reduce your digital clutter.

I’m guilty as hell for signing up for various email subscriptions. I am also guilty for never deleting emails — I have so many unread that I turned off the notification bubble for emails.

Devoting time to read, delete, or unsubscribe honestly frees up some headspace that was otherwise cluttered. This also

works with apps, social media friends and followers, photos, and messages.

Unsubscribe from emails you only got for that one time discount. Delete those random screenshots of class notes that you don't need anymore.

Unfollow that one guy from high school that you don't care to see their posts. Don't feel guilty about doing any of it.

4. KonMari while you move out While I'm fully encouraging you to implement this method now, it is also one that can be implemented when you move out in May. The reason I started KonMari-ing in the first place, besides being a bandwagoner, is so I could reduce the amount of stuff I need to pack when I move to another state this summer. I knew if I hadn't used it since moving to Carbondale, I sure as hell wasn't going to use it after Carbondale.

Am I actually going to need books and notes from previous semesters? Probably not.

Does having a kill shelf of alcohol bottles on my kitchen cabinets spark joy? No. I need to throw out some of

the memories attached to the bottles and my parents sure don't need to see the extensive collection of New Amsterdam bottles my roommates and I have racked up either.

Decluttering while you pack lets you travel lighter and not worry about cluttering up the place you're moving onto next.

I especially suggest this if you're moving from dorm to apartment as some of the dorm specific items you have now you will literally never use again.

5. KonMari yourself Yes, you can in fact KonMari yourself.

Do this by not holding on to all the BS thoughts that keep you up at night.

Learn and move on from previous failures and basically just focus on whatever sparks joy for you while removing all the negative energy you put on yourself. The humorous tweets you see about someone removing their ex, bills, or politicians because they don't spark joy all hold a little bit of truth in them.

Either there’s an all-powerful universal ruling element of the cosmos that does directly influence who you are predestined to be as a character in reality — or it’s all horse crud.

Editor’s note: The views and opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of The Daily Egyptian, its staff or its associates.

You’re Dumb and Wrong is a weekly column about video games, movies and popular entertainment from local nonbeliever Jeremy Brown. Brown can be reached at jbrown@dailyegyptian.com.

How to Marie Kondo the clutter out of your apartment and life

Reagan Gavin | @RGavin_DE

Netflix has capitalized on the trend of decluttering with Marie Kondo, a tidy legend and now internet meme. She implements her KonMari method in people's homes to help them organize and reduce unused belongings.

If you're new to the KonMari method, essentially she focuses on only keeping items that truly spark joy for you.

Falling into the KonMari internet trap — to which I blame Buzzfeed’s numerous listacles on the subject — I decided to take the weekend and KonMari the hell out of my apartment.

1. Pull out everything you own and sort through for items that only spark joy The first step to properly KonMari-ing is to focus on one area and pull everything out, for example, your closet.

Once you have a pile of clothing, start sorting through your belongings and think to yourself “does this spark joy?”

I found myself looking through some of my clothes wondering when the hell they actually “sparked joy” to begin with.

Staff designer Reagan Gavin can be reached at rgavin@dailyegyptian.com.

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Jodee Harmon | @harmon_jodee 4-year-old Will Laflamme from Herrin looks to his mom and laughs out of excitement over the card he’s making. “This card is for my friend Grayson,” Will Laflamme said. Laflamme made the card with some help from his mom at Jack & Josie’s on Saturday.

Carson VanBuskirk | @carsonvanbDE Hanna Evans, of Creal Springs, decorates a cake on Monday at Larry’s House of Cakes in Marion.

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Above: Valentine’s Day candies are set on display on Saturday at Etcetera Flowers, Fine Gifts & Gourmet in Marion. “We feel a sense of satisfaction making people happy [on Valentine’s Day],” owner Michael Heilig says, “Especially our delivery drivers, they feel its rewarding to take people flowers.” (Carson VanBuskirk | @carsonvanbDE) Below: Jack & Josie’s, a brand new toy and candy store in Marion, hosted a Valentine’s Day card making event for the kids, Saturday. “I’m excited over how many kids have come to make valentines so far,” the owner Christine Keeney said. The kids had different stations where they could make as many valentines as they wanted. 7-year-old Gavin Gile makes his own valentine for his crush. (Jodee Harmon | @harmon_jodee)

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Jodee Harmon | @harmon_jodee Stacey Bowles, owner of Buds 2 Blooms in Marion, goes back to the cooler to grab some flowers for a Valentine’s Day arrangement. “This is where all the flowers are kept and I make the arrangements on a work bench, “ Bowles said. A wide variety of colorful flowers were spread out throughout the cooler with the popular Valentine’s Day colors: pink, red, white, and purple.

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Jodee Harmon | @harmon_jodee Jodee Harmon | @harmon_jodee Getting ready for Valentine’s Day, Stacey Bowles owner of Buds 2 Blooms in Marion, starts on a EllieMae Nail clings to her dad Jonathan Nail during the Daddy-Daughter Dance at Rent One Park, new flower arrangement, Saturday. Surrounded by beautiful floral arrangements, Bowles intricately Saturday. ElllieMae Nail repeatedly rests her head on her dad’s shoulder and lets him sway them arranges the flowers in a vase. back and forth on the dance floor.

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Opinion

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Opinion: Racial bias influences health care — and it starts in the exam room Monica Maalouf | Chicago Tribune

“No doctor has ever reminded me that I am black before,” the patient said, laughing and nodding his head to let me know he appreciated my advice.

Just as he was startled by my open recognition of his race, so too was I startled by his reaction.

As his physician, I felt the issue I’d raised wasn’t worth ignoring; if anything, I viewed it as the “elephant in the exam room,” desperately begging to be called out: Black patients continue to suffer higher morbidity and mortality from colon cancer, compared to any other racial group, according to a 2016 study published in the Journal of Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology, and that is a fact that warrants discussion in the doctor’s office.

In 2002 the Institute of Medicine, a national consortium of experts, published a 700-

page report on racial and ethnic disparities in health care. The group examined more than 100 individual studies and concluded, overwhelmingly, that health disparities exist.

While the report emphasized that the reasons behind health status disparities “are complex and poorly understood,” evidence suggests that both socioeconomic differences and “direct and indirect consequences of discrimination” are at play.

We are now nearly two decades out from the original publication of many of the studies examined by the IOM, yet we are still grappling with stark disparities in both disease outcomes and treatment. And, although “the incidence and mortality rates of colorectal cancer in the United States has steadily declined” over the years, according to the 2016 study, “reductions have been strikingly much slower among African-Americans.”

This fact shouldn’t shock

“The group examined more than 100 individual studies and concluded, overwhelmingly, that health disparities exist.” anyone, given the reality that health systems, and health training environments, are poorly equipped to tackle the crisis of disparate treatment and disparate outcomes.

In 2016, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education conducted a study of physician training programs nationwide and concluded that few programs “appeared to have a formal strategy for addressing health care disparities or a systematic approach to identifying variability in the care provided to … known vulnerable patient populations.”

Furthermore, there is growing evidence published in recent years, highlighting the fact that practitioners’ implicit biases

often shape treatment decisions and health outcomes.

Being a young black child with appendicitis, for instance, means you are less likely than a white child to get pain medication in an emergency room. Being a black patient in an intensive care unit means you might not get as much time with your physician as a white patient.

And when it comes to colon cancer, physicians are much less likely to even bring up screening modalities with black patients compared to whites.

The data have led me to believe that we, as a scientific community, have done an amazing job highlighting a problem. Truthfully, the problem of health disparities has not only

been highlighted, it’s been written in bold font and ALL CAPS. What we have yet to do, however, is come up with systematic approaches for tackling this issue and supporting our most marginalized patients.

For the patient I brought up earlier, who was sitting in my exam room asking me if he should get a colonoscopy, I knew we had to discuss it.

As a black man, the numbers are not in his favor.

By acknowledging race with him, I hoped that whatever implicit bias I might have as a practitioner would become explicit. By bringing race to the forefront, I hoped it would no longer fall to the side.

We have to chisel away at this disparity, and as a primary care physician, I can do so by starting the conversation, one patient at a time.

Monica Maalouf, M.D., is a physician and assistant professor of medicine at Loyola Stritch School of Medicine.

Healey: If you’re a non-Christian facing execution in Alabama, God help you because the Supreme Court won’t Jon Healey | Los Angeles Times

If you need a rabbi, an imam or other non-Christian spiritual advisor to accompany you into the death chamber in Alabama, God help you. Because the U.S. Supreme Court won’t.

On Thursday night, the justices granted a request by Alabama’s prisons chief, Jefferson S. Dunn, to allow the state to proceed with the execution of Domineque Hakim Marcelle Ray, for the 1995 murder of a 15-year-old girl in Selma.

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals had put the execution on hold not because there was any lingering question about Ray’s guilt, but because Alabama wouldn’t allow Ray, a Muslim, to have a cleric of his faith in the death chamber in place of the prison’s Christian chaplain.

The Supreme Court lifted the stay late Thursday by a 5-4 vote, and Alabama executed Ray shortly thereafter.

I understand why the state wasn’t inclined to do any favors for Ray, who’d also been convicted of killing two teenage boys. But the constitutional principle at stake here is large and obvious. And the justices bungled it.

This is a worrisome sign that the court’s new, more conservative majority is going to take a blinkered view of the 1st Amendment’s “Establishment

Clause,” which holds that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

There have been continual fights about what the clause means for public displays of religious faith by government officials or in government buildings, but there should be no confusion over the fundamental principle that the government must not foist a particular faith on the people. There can be no picking of winners by government in the competition for souls.

Which brings us back to Ray. Alabama stations a Christian chaplain in its death chamber — perhaps more for the benefit of prison guards and those who administer the lethal injection than for the prisoners being executed. Nevertheless, it’s a clear endorsement of one faith over another.

Ray asked, reasonably, that he be ushered off this mortal coil in the company of his imam. But according to an Alabama Corrections Department spokesman quoted by the news website Al.com, department protocol allows only “approved correctional officials, that includes the prison’s chaplain, to be inside the chamber where executions are lawfully carried out.”

Olivier Douliery | @Abaca Press/TNS The Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, D.C., on September 25, 2018.

The spokesman added that “the inmate’s spiritual advisor may visit the inmate beforehand and witness the execution from a designated witness room that has a two-way window.”

“Under that policy,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote in a powerful dissent, “a Christian prisoner may have a minister of his own faith accompany him into the execution chamber to say his last rites. But if an inmate practices a different religion — whether

Islam, Judaism, or any other — he may not die with a minister of his own faith by his side.

That treatment goes against the Establishment Clause’s core principle of denominational neutrality.”

The state argued that it has a compelling interest in preserving the security of its prisons, and it does have that. But as Kagan noted, there’s no reason it couldn’t give Ray’s imam — or a rabbi, or the equivalent in any

other faith — the same screening and training that it gives the Christian clerics who volunteer to serve as prison chaplains.

Even within Christianity, there are differences between denominations that matter to their adherents. The least that the state of Alabama can do — and what it must do under the 1st Amendment — is not impose its favored flavor of faith upon death row inmates as it sends them to meet their maker.

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ACROSS 1 Lamb bearers 5 Common Vegas hotel room amenities 10 Tea holders 14 Herod sent them to Bethlehem 15 Full of energy 16 __ Day: Bayer vitamin brand 17 Faction 18 Cook’s reply to 37-Across?

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In the War Room with Warfel: The Free Agency Scandal Adam Warfel | @warfel_adam

Pitchers and catchers across the MLB reported to their spring training sites this week – exciting news for any baseball fan.

The St. Louis Cardinals report date was yesterday – the same for the Chicago Cubs and any remaining Chicago White Sox fans.

Baseball’s offseason has seemed to be longer than years past, especially when it comes to the free agency market.

After the World Series ended in October, fans were dreaming of seeing players like Bryce Harper, Manny Machado, Dallas Keuchel, Gio Gonzalez and Craig Kimbrel wearing their teams colors.

Yet, here we are literally days away from players reporting and yet none of the mentioned players have signed a contract with a team.

At the beginning of the offseason, it seemed like Harper and Machado were linked with any team willing to listen varying from the Phillies to the White Sox. Fans who are frustrated at their team’s owners for not opening their wallets to pay these players, to

what was rumored to be in the tenyear $350 million range – relax.

Let me say to those fans, for the last big name player to hit the market and get a long term deal like the ones rumored, especially for Harper and Machado, look to Albert Pujols.

Prior to the 2012 season, the Angels gave Pujols a ten year 240 million contract, while he was 32 at the time. Harper and Machado are both 25 and 26 respectively this year.

While the Pujols deal will make him 42 and most likely retired from baseball, the argument could be made that giving both Harper and Machado ten year deals would be during the prime of their careers.

Fans may be furious about owners refusing to offer long term contracts to these free agents, but to those fans I would say don’t expect it to end soon.

An interview with Cardinals owner Bill Dewitt and St.Louis Post Dispatch’s Derrick Goold in early January revealed some key insight into the stagnant free agency market.

In the interview Dewitt said owners are getting “smarter.”

“When you really analyze it, dollars and cents, as well as projecting from an analytical standpoint some of these ten year plus deals into a players late 30s don’t pencil out,” Dewitt said.

Any casual fan of baseball might erupt into a fit of rage at the notion of that comment, but ask any Angels fan how they feel not being able to build around Mike Trout due to the Pujols contract and your mind might change.

Now that football is over with, Americans can turn to their favorite national pastime – baseball.

In just a little over a month, Major League Baseball will begin again along with the smells of hot dogs, the smack of the ball against a leather glove and the pop of the wooden bat when your favorite player connects with the ball just right.

Regardless, of where the free agents land, it’s good to know baseball is back.

Sports editor Adam Warfel can be reached at awarfel@dailyegyptian.com

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Saluki track and field legend returns to coach, road to 2020 Olympic Games Tamar Mosby | @mosbytamar

A series of new hires for the Saluki Track and Field has welcomed new faces to the coaching staff this season including a very familiar face to Saluki athletics – legendary high jumper Kyle Landon.

The SIU alumni was brought on staff as a volunteer assistant coach early January.

“I was ecstatic to hear that Kyle was moving back to the area and was open to helping with our program,” said Rosalind Joseph, SIU Track and Field Director. “He brings a wealth of competitive experience and knowledge that will resonate with our current Salukis.”

Landon graduated from Southern in 2017 and has recently returned to the region to be closer to family.

“When my wife and I found out that we were having our second baby that changed everything financially,” Landon said. “We had a small pregnancy complication and we moved back to be around family.”

The high jumper has been welcomed back to town with open arms by Saluki athletics staff and fans, seeing as he had tremendous amounts of success in his collegiate career.

“He has an impressive resume of wins, experience at every competitive level and he is still competing so he can relate on that level as well,” Joseph said.

“People around this town love Kyle and his ability to connect with anyone.”

During his time at SIU, Landon competed as a field athlete, participating in the long, high and triple jump events.

Despite competing successfully in three field events, Landon achieved a majority of this success in the high jump.

“I miss being apart of Saluki track’s historic success,” Landon said. “It’s good to know down the road that I was a part of it.”

Landon’s collegiate career is filled with various awards while he earned MVC indoor and outdoor titles in the high jump for four years straight and also picked up All-MVC honors in the triple and long jump.

The three event jumper dominated the Valley track conference receiving MVC Field Athlete of the Week 11 times, MVC Most Outstanding Field Athlete four times and MVC Most Valuable Athlete two times during his career.

Landon was not limited to dominating in the MVC as he was a five-time All-American in the high jump and made several appearances in NCAA and USATF meets.

The All-American hails from

Chester, Illinois which lies about 50 minutes outside of the Carbondale area.

“I first started high jumping in fifth grade,” Landon said. “I think I’ve been so successful in the event because I have been doing it for a long time and I have switched my mind as an athlete to the point where I am able to notice the little things I need to do to get better.”

Before blazing a trail of success as a Saluki, Landon was a star track athlete at Chester High School and still currently holds records for two field events at the school.

During his time as a Chester Yellow Jacket, he won five state championships in the high jump, three indoor and two outdoor and two state championships in the long jump, one indoor and one outdoor.

In his 2013 senior year, he was ranked second nationally in the indoor high jump and third nationally in the outdoor high jump.

He also received the Gatorade Illinois Boys Track and Field Athlete of the Year Award and the Southern Illinois Track Athlete of the Year Award during his final high school season.

Landon expressed his excitement about becoming a volunteer coach and returning to his alma mater.

“I’m excited to be able to keep my foot in the door at SIU,” Landon said. “I’m also excited to learn from and be apart of the new coaching staff and be able to see what they bring into the program.”

Despite being a fresh face in the coaching game, the former Saluki star has already set goals for

himself to achieve in his new job.

“I want to make sure I have a good relationship with my athletes but I also want them to know I’m pushing them every day,” Landon said. “My focus is just to make sure I have a purpose and that I’m making an impact.”

Not only has Landon’s new coaching position been a benefit to him, it has also helped Joseph in having some help juggling each event group.

“He’s been a godsend,” Joseph said. “I felt that I wasn’t able to give each student-athlete the attention they deserved. Between, Kyle, myself and Coach Brigham – we are able to divide time up to give quality coaching. He comes in with a smile on his face and he’s always ready to help and teach.”

Current Saluki field athletes are also excited about the legend’s return and have already been able to gain knowledge from him.

“I’m excited that he knows the program and the event very well,” said Justine Patton, senior high jumper. “High jumping is his specialty so I know that we’re getting good training because of his experience.”

Landon likes what he is seeing so far from his athletes and several of the athletes have already achieved commendable amounts of progress and success this season.

“Everyone’s got a little bit more focus and want-to this year,” Landon said. “The athletes are training harder and looking much stronger. Once we can get them to slow things down more and get more repetitions, we’ll start seeing some really good things.”

As a coach Landon pushes his

high jump athletes to pay attention to detail, which is a very large part of having success in the event.

“He is really good at letting us know what little details we need to work on,” Patton said. “It’s easier to adjust our approaches when we know exactly what we need to tweek.”

In addition to volunteer coaching for Southern, Landon is still competing in the high jump and is currently training in preparation for the 2020 Olympic Trials.

The world class athlete in no stranger to the trials, as he took home the silver medal in the 2016 Trials to close his junior collegiate campaign.

The All-American set a personal best of 2.26 meters at this meet being only the fourth Saluki to do so only missing the Olympic trials by one-third of an inch.

“I learned a lot from that experience,” Landon said. “With track being a four year cycle, it’s tough to be at 100 percent every year. I’ve learned to be a smarter athlete in terms of training and taking care of my body to maintain a good balance.”

Landon is currently training for the 2020 games with Cliff Rovelto, Kansas State Director of Track and Field.

Rovelto not only coached 16 athletes to NCAA titles in his 31 year career, he is a four time recipient of the Big 12 outdoor coach of the year award and served as an assistant coach to the USA Men’s Track and Field team in the 2016 Olympics.

“Last year I started working with Cliff Rovelto out of Kansas State,” Landon said. “This will be

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my first full year of going through his workouts and I realized that I have some mechanical issues.

My focus for 2020 is on stability, mechanics and targeting specific muscle groups to get extra inches.”

Joseph feels that Landon currently being in competition adds to his coaching abilities and helps him to relate to his athletes.

“It’s always good for athletes to have the perspective of someone who’s been where they are,” Joseph said. “With him still training, it’s fun to watch that caliber of athlete.”

“Kyle is a good coach because he’s had a lot of experience with the high jump and he knows the in’s and out’s of it,” Patton said.

“He knows what he’s talking about because he’s been there before.”

Landon’s move to Carbondale appears to be permanent and the track star is glad to be back at his former stomping grounds.

“The plan is to stay here long term now,” Landon said. “With two little ones it would be hard to train in another place. At the end of the day SIU is my home and I love this school and the team.”

After completing his competitive career, Landon plans to become a full-time track and field coach and Joseph feels that he would be amazing in this field of work.

“I’m excited to have him alongside me this season,” Joseph said. “After his competitive years, I think he can have a bright future as a coach in this sport.”

Sports reporter Tamar Mosby can be reached at tmosby@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @mosbytamar.

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Speed Kills: Saluki Baseball set to strike terror on the base paths Adam Warfel | @warfel_adam

Typically within school, there are three sporting seasons– fall, winter and spring. You’ll run the gamut of sports – 16 during a regular school year at Southern. For Head Coach Ken Henderson’s squad – spring is for baseball.

The Salukis open their baseball season up against Nicholls State on February 16.

For Henderson, the new season brings new expectations.

“This is my 29th year,” Henderson said. “I can say without hesitation, I am more excited about Saluki baseball right now than at any point in my 29 years here.”

Henderson said he looks forward to this year’s season – not only because of the team – but because of the support from Jerry Kill, interim SIU Athletic Director.

“Coach Kill has made a commitment to Saluki baseball unlike anything that’s been done in my 29 years,” Henderson said. “He has stepped up and sent a message to our team and our program that he cares about Saluki baseball.”

Henderson mentioned several new features that fans can see at Itchy Jones Stadium – including a flightscope machine, a new video

system and new padding to go along with new lighting.

“We’re going to increase the lighting. we’re going to vastly improve that,” Henderson said.

“It’s good but it’s not great, right now we have 80 some bulbs, and we [have] a project going on to add 40 some bulbs.”

Henderson noted SIU has historically had good players and teams, but mentioned that the pool of players he has this season is unmatched.

“We’ve had some really good players in the past, we’ve had some good teams,” Henderson said. “We’ve not had a collection of them like we do right now – this is the most complete team we’ve had.”

For the last two years Saluki baseball has been all about speed, finishing fourth last season nationally in steals.

For fans wondering, don’t expect that to change this season.

“We do run better this year, we’re more athletic and we’re faster than we’ve ever been in my time here,” Henderson said. “Up and down the lineup we’ll be able to run.”

Senior outfielder Alex Lyon, who finished second in steals on the team last year, also noted how

much faster this years team is compared to last years.

“We definitely have a lot more speed, our lineup is going to be really fast,” Lyon said.

As far as the mentality of speed and how that can affect the opponents it adds another component that the opposition has to be aware of.

“It wears down other teams, I feel like there is always guys wanting to steal or move up bases,” Lyon said. “I feel like it creates chaos for other teams though – it’s the world of difference having speed on the paths.”

Saluki football fans might find one name in common with the baseball team, as senior Matt Desomer will take the mound pitching this season, adding to the quarterbacking he did in the fall.

“He’s going to help us he’s got a great feel for pitching,” Henderson said. “That’s the one thing after five years – you think his arm is going to get better but does he have command and he has proven he can do that.”

Turning to the infield and the position players, Henderson noticed that their experience on the diamond will be valuable this season.

“Our position players are experienced and it should be the strength of our ball club,” Henderson said.” That infield is awfully good, Niko Vasic is back at second base, Grey Epps will slide over to shortstop.”

Henderson said while the infield has vast experience it lacks depth, the outfield on the other hand will provide plenty of depth for the Dawgs.

“The outfield is opposite of the infield, we have a ton of depth in the outfield,” Henderson said. “I feel really good about the infield as long as they stay healthy – that will be one of the fastest outfields around.”

As far as how that depth in the outfield looks like from a player’s perspective for Lyon, it has helped him to become a better player than he already was.

“It’s definitely pushed me to get a little better, no ones guaranteed a spot everyday,” Lyon said. “It’s definitely helped me to improve my game, it’s definitely nice having that depth.”

In the preseason poll, the Salukis were picked to finish fifth in the Missouri Valley Conference behind Missouri State, Dallas Baptist, Indiana State and Bradley.

“I don’t think too much of it because preseason is preseason,” Lyon said.” There’s so many different things we have a brand new team this year, I think it just comes down to whoever just finishes good at the end.”

Henderson said he sees the preseason poll as no surprise being put precisely where he thought his team would be based off of who they had returning.

“Every coach wants to be picked at the top, [this is] exactly where I thought we’d be picked,” Henderson said.” Polls are based strictly on what you have returning because in baseball – we don’t know a lot about what other teams have brought in.”

As for the mentality in the clubhouse, not many believe the team will finish fifth in a conference that Henderson mentioned any of six teams could finish at the top.

“If you go into our clubhouse, you’re not going to find one guy who thinks we’re going to finish fifth,” Henderson said.” I truly believe that six teams have a chance to win the league, it’s a testament to how strong the league is.”

The Salukis will open the season on February 15 against Nicholls State at 1 p.m.

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